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Letter to the Editor

Is case fatality rate an appropriate index to represent the status of case-finding process for COVID-19 in different countries?

Moslem Taheri Soodejania Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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Mohammad Hassan Lotfia Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaeib Medical Informatics Department, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran;c Clinical Research Unit, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IranCorrespondence[email protected]
Article: 1773733 | Published online: 02 Jun 2020

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